Extra Credit Options
| Final | Description |
| Final A | "I Have A Dream" by Thomas Friedman | Reflections on Politics and Elian Gonzalez |
| Final B | "The Magic Mountain" by Paul Krugman | Globalization and the World Economic Forum at Davos |
| Final C | "The Moral Sense in Estate Tax Repeal" by Alan Wolfe | The case for repealing estate taxes |
| Final E | "Jubilee 2000: Paying Our Debts" by Robert W Edgar | Is there wisdom inforgiving some of the debt burden of developing nations? |
| Final F | "Not Happening" by Thomas Friedman | Did the experiment in multi-ethnic Bosnia fail? |
| Final G | "Failures of the 20th Century: See under IMF" by Gregory Palast | Are strategies for global economic growth undermining those countries they are supposed to be helping? |
| Final H | "Investing in Children" by Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott | Former Prime Minister Tony Blair's third path between capitalism and socialism |
| Final K | "Ask Not What . . ." by Thomas Friedman | The generation gap between the "Greatest Generation" and others. Should they be emulated? |
| Final L | "Crime in the Suites" by William Greider | The Demise of Enron |
| Final M | "The Unilateralist: A Conversation with Paul Wolfowitz" by James Fallows | Realpolitik and unilateral military intervention |
| Final N | "Zero Sum Game Only Has Losers" by Naomi Chazan | The dilemma of the ordinary Israeli citizen |
| Final O | "The Cycles of Financial Scandals" by Kevin Phillips | The effects of financialization on the American economy |
| Final P | "The Latest Kissinger Outrage" by Christopher Hitchens | What should the legacy of Henry Kissinger be? |
| Final Q | "Thinking About Iraq (3)" by Thomas Friedman | Should the US have brokered a deal for Saddam Hussein's exile? |
| Final R | "Mr. Bush's Liberal Problem" by Nicholas Kristof | Are political leaders and movement's hampered by their idealism? |
| Final T | "Stating the Obvious" by Paul Krugman | "Starving the Beast" through tax cuts |
| Final U | "Promoting the General Welfare" by Molly Ivins | Tax Fairness in the US |
| Final W | "Democracy, Not Off the Shelf" by William Raspberry | Is democracy a one-size-fits-all commodity? |
| Final X | "Debtor Nation" by William Greider | Does the debt carried by the US suggest there should be a new general tarifon imports? |
| Final Y | "The Invisible Hand Holds the Remote" by Robert Scheer | American moralism and hypocrisy when it comes to TV viewing habits. |
| Final Z | "Where Have You Gone, Joe Dimaggio" by Thomas Friedman | Has the United States Lost its Competitive Edge? |
| Final AA | "Tortured Reasoning" by Thomas Sowell | Should the United States categorically ban torture? |
| Final AB | "The End of the Internet?" by Jeff Chester | Net Neutrality and Telecommunications Discrimination |
| Final AC | "As Online Viewing Booms, The Amateurs Give Way to Big Media" by Scott Kirsner | Will Major Media outlets dominate online viewing? |
| Final AD | "Reverse Exodus: High Tech Indian Immigrants Returning Home" by Mira Kamdar | Is a reverse brain drain hurting the US's ability to compete? |
| Final AE | "Treating Money as Free Speech" by Nolan Bowie | Should all American citizens possess a trademark on all their personal information? |
| Final AF | "The Long and Short of It at Goldman Sachs" by Ben Stein | Did Goldman Sachs act inappropriately on the cusp of the economic downturn in 2008? |
| Final AG | "The Democratic Recession" by Thomas Friedman | The connection between petroleum wealth and democratic principles in the Midde East and beyond. |
| Final AH | "They Get It" by Timothy Egan | Do relatively unsophisticated readers understand how manipulative media is? |
| Final AI | "While Detroit Slept" by Thomas Friedman | Will car makers follow the business model of computer manufacturers? |
| Final AJ | "Put Aside Logic" by Maureen Dowd | Americans should be willing to pay for online news content or they will source control and quality |
| Final AK | "Human Nature Today" by David Brooks | Evolutionary Psychology and its potential impact on policy. |
| Final AL | "An Innovation Agenda" by David Brooks | Ideas for how to kickstart innovation in the US. |
| Final AM | "The Pink Floyd Night School" by Mark Edmundson | On taking time off when you're young before setting off on your life's ambitions. |
| Final AN | "The Moral Naturalists" by David Brooks | Is morality hardwired in humans? |
| Final AO | "Unjust Spoils" by Robert Reich | Economic injustice in the United States |
| Final AP | "The Big Disconnect" by David Brooks | The public mood vis-a-vis the economic cycle. |
| Final AQ | The Ways of Silencing" by Jason Stanley | The insidious strategy that right wing media uses to poison the information well. |
| Final AR | "Intellectuals and Politics" by Gary Gutting | What kind of mental qualities should our political leaders have? |
| Final AS | "Death of a Fairy Tale" by Paul Krugman | Confidence is a concept that is oversold in talking about the health of an economy |
| Final AT | "Robots and Robber Barons" by Paul Krugman | Does the capitalist oligarchy need a middle class anymore? |
| Final AU | "Student Debt and the Crushing of the American Dream" by Joseph Stiglitz | The impediment of student loans in achieving education. |
| Final AV | "The Secular Society" by David Brooks | Is contemporary life more morally demanding? |
| Final AW | "Can't We Do Better?" by Thomas Friedman | Motivation and education |
| Final AX | "The Problem with Confidence" by David Brooks | Confidence and the Gender Gap — can too much confidence be a problem? |
| Final AY | "Baseball or Soccer" by David Brooks | Is life more like baseball or like soccer? |
| Final AZ | "The Ambition Explosion" by David Brooks | Modern China and its spiritual crisis. |
| Final BA | "What's The Point of a Professor" by Mark Bauerlein | Is the role of the professor inside and outside of the classroom diminishing? |
| Final BB | "Inequality Is A Choice" by Nicholas Kristoff | What is the root of inequality? |
| Final BC | "Communities of Character" by David Brooks | What are the qualities that learning communities enhance? |
| Final BD | "Trump: The Social Media President" | Did Donald Trump take advantage of the rules of the new media? |
| Final BE | "On Books: What Princeton Students are Reading (An Undergrad's Search for the Book of Her Generation)" | What book deines the current generation that is comoing of age? |
| Final BF | "The House Health Care Disaster Is Really About Taxes" | The real reason why the Republicans in the Trump Administration want to cut health care and reform taxes. |
| Final BG | "Are Gender Feminists and Transgender Activists Undermining Science" | Can we afford to ignore scientific claims? |
| Final BH | "Appalling Moutza News From Greece" | Is banning obscene gestures desirable of feasible? |
| Final BI | "Bernie Sanders's Job Guarantee: Is it a Boondoggle?" | Can we reach full employment in the US? |
| Final BJ | "What the Working Class Is Still Trying toTell Us" | How has the white collar class made life difficult for the working class and can labor markets be reformed? |
| Final BK | "The Difference Between Happiness and Joy" | How do we recognize joy apart from happiness and does it happen unintentionally? |
| Final BL | "What Makes Us All Radically Equal?" | Do the natural rights of all huankind exist? |
| Final BM | "Open States, Lots of Guns. America is Paying a Heavy Price for Freedom" | Is there a relationship between those who oppose gun control and those who want to return to normal during COVID? |
| Final BN | "The Rotting of the Republican Mind" | Is the populist backlash against information elites resulting in an epistemic crisis? |
| Final BO | "When Wokeness Becomes Weakness" | Is wokeness a political problem for the left? |
| Final BP | "Want To Improve Your Child's Mental Health?" | Can a forest bath be restorative? |
| Final BQ | "TikTok May Be More Dangerous Than It Looks" | Does TikTok pose a danger to the US? |
| Final BR | "The Uncanny Power of Friendship" | Are Cross-class Friendships a Predictor of Upward Mobility? |
| Final BS | "What Our Toxic Culture is Doing to Young People" | Do people who grow up in a culture of distrust have poorer life outcomes? |
| Final BT | "Universities are Failing at Inclusion" | Have Diversity, Equity, Inclusion programs at universities failed their mission? |
| Final BU | "Tackling the Wealth Gap: KKR's Pete Stavros and a New Employee Ownership Model" | When is workers who are getting cut in on the deal too much of a good thing? |
| Final BV | In the book review of Yanis Varoufakis's Techno-Feudalism by Cory Doctorow entitled Yanis Varoufakis's "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?" | Does Varoufakis's description of the new economic system of the online universe make sense? |
| Final BW | Randi Weingarten's opinion piece entitled "Not All Students Go To College. We Need To Make That OK" | is there a meaningful alternative to the 4 + 4 (4 years of high school and 4 years of college) approach to education? |
| Final BX | In Lenore Skenazy and Jonathan Haidt's essay entitled "The Fragile Generation" | what are the qualities that young people need to thrive at college and beyond? |